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All Systems Go: Warner Bros. Consumer Products Names Jazwares Master Toy Partner for Teen Titans Go!
Toys Available this Holiday Season
Sunrise, Fl, and Burbank, CA – June 17, 2013 – Warner Bros. Consumer Products and Jazwares™ team up to announce their master toy and electronics partnership for Teen Titans Go!, Warner Bros. Animation's new action-packed comedy adventure series based on the DC Comics Super Heroes, which airs Tuesdays 7:30 p.m. (ET/PT) and Saturdays 10:30 a.m. (ET/PT) on Cartoon Network as part of the network's DC Nation programming block.
Jazwares' Teen Titans Go! master toy line will deepen the company's presence in the rapidly growing action-comedy retail space. Teen Titans Go! action figures, plush and role-play toys will be available for holiday 2013 sales at Toys R' Us.
Executive Vice President of Global Sales for Jazwares, Laura Zebersky, expressed the company's enthusiasm for the brand, saying, "We are very excited to launch our Teen Titans Go! toys this holiday season. Our collaboration with Warner Bros. Consumer Products and the show's creative team has ensured a focused and fun kick-off to what will be a strong, evergreen entertainment brand on-shelf."
"Teen Titans Go! is an animation powerhouse with a legion of followers and we're excited to partner with Jazwares to bring the property to life through toys and electronics as the Teen Titans unleash their all-new adventures on Cartoon Network," said Karen McTier, Executive Vice President, Domestic Licensing and Worldwide Marketing for Warner Bros. Consumer Products.
The announcement of the Teen Titans Go! master toy and electronics partnership represents the latest license in an expansive list of brands for Jazwares. For more information about all of Jazwares' current lines, please visit www.jazwares.com.
About Jazwares, Inc.
With its focus on innovation and function, Jazwares has established itself as a well-respected leader in the licensed products industry, delivering a diverse line of goods featuring some of the most contemporary entertainment properties in the marketplace. Today, through the expertise of their design specialists, Jazwares continues to offer a wide array of products and has expanded its line of action figures and electronics with some of today's hottest licenses around. This includes Adventure Time™, Regular Show, One Direction, Hanna-Barbera™, Plants vs. Zombies™, Star Wars™, Lalaloopsy™, Minecraft™, WWE™, Sonic the Hedgehog™, Mortal Kombat™ among others. Jazwares' goal is to invent toys and related products that are new to the marketplace, featuring the licenses that kids want at an affordable price. For more information about Jazwares, Inc., please visit www.jazwares.com.
About Warner Bros. Consumer Products
Warner Bros. Consumer Products, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, is one of the leading licensing and retail merchandising organizations in the world.
About Warner Bros. Animation
Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) is one of the leading producers of animation in the entertainment industry, with an innovative and talent-rich roster boasting some of the most accomplished writers, producers and artists working today. The studio is on the cutting edge of animation technology and has both CG and traditionally animated projects in current production and development. For TV, WBA produces series such as The Looney Tunes Show, MAD, Teen Titans Go! and the forthcoming Beware The Batman and The Tom and Jerry Show for Cartoon Network and Mike Tyson Mysteries for Adult Swim. WBA also produces series and additional original content — including animated shorts - for Cartoon Network's multiplatform branded DC Nation programming block. WBA also creates the highly successful series of DC Universe Original Animated Movies for DVD. Producing for multiple platforms including TV, digital and home entertainment both domestically and internationally, WBA is highly respected for its creative and technical excellence, as well as for maintaining the Studio's rich cartoon heritage. It is also the home of the iconic animated characters from the DC Comics, Hanna-Barbera, MGM and Looney Tunes libraries. One of the most-honored animation studios in history, WBA has won six Academy Awards®, 35 Emmy® Awards, the George Foster Peabody Award, an Environmental Media Award, a Parents' Choice Award, the HUMANITAS Prize, two Prism Awards and 20 Annie Awards (honoring excellence in animation).
About DC Entertainment
DC Entertainment, home to iconic brands DC Comics (Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, The Flash), Vertigo (Sandman, Fables) and MAD, is the creative division charged with strategically integrating its content across Warner Bros. Entertainment and Time Warner. DC Entertainment works in concert with many key Warner Bros. divisions to unleash its stories and characters across all media, including but not limited to film, television, consumer products, home entertainment and interactive games. Publishing thousands of comic books, graphic novels and magazines each year, DC Entertainment is the largest English-language publisher of comics in the world. In January 2012, DC Entertainment, in collaboration with Warner Bros. and Time Warner divisions, launched We Can Be Heroes - a giving campaign featuring the iconic Justice League super heroes - to raise awareness and funds to fight the hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa.